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Furthermore, hypokalaemic perfusion was associated with reduced ventricular fibrillation threshold and increased inducibility of tachyarrhythmias by programmed electrical stimulation and tachypacing as determined at the LV stimulation site. In contrast, the RV stimulation revealed no change in arrhythmic susceptibility of the RV chamber. Consistently, hypokalaemia reduced the LV effective refractory period but had no effect on the RV refractoriness. This change enabled generation of premature propagating responses by extrastimulus application at earlier time points during LV repolarization. Increased prematurity of extrastimulus\u2010evoked propagating responses was associated with exaggerated local inhomogeneities in intraventricular conduction and action potential duration in hypokalaemic LV, thus creating a favourable stage for re\u2010entrant tachyarrhythmias. 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